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  • shopping in the darkness of the early Caribbean evening

    I really like the local Carrefour / Dillon. Their own articles are apparently targeted towards the Francophone + Dutch market, so the articles are labeled in the resp. languages. I only saw this  a lot, when I lived and worked in Antwerp, but I did not expect to see this again out here in the Caribbean.

    After a little searching I finally even found something similar to Philadelphia / green. I am not quite sure, whether this is adequate food for the Caribbean, but apparently there is not just me here, who seems to like it. I also got me some Camembert, that together with some nice baguette will help me survive.

    For breakfast I got now müsli, corn flakes, and milk. And bananas, bananas, bananas, …

    Oooo, the milk is from France, not a local product. What a pity!

    BTW: If you ever want to see a garbage bin, just as clean as you breakfast table: come and see it here!

    I am not sure, whether I did that already, but I don’t want to forget to mention this:

    I love the Caribbean.

  • youtube: Bob Dylan The Byrds – Turn Turn Turn (1990)

    Whenever I quote “Preacher 3” to people not familiar with the Torah, the Tanakh / Bible in general, I refer them to this song:

    There is a time for everything,
    and a season for every activity under heaven:
    a time to be born and a time to die,
    a time to plant and a time to uproot,
    a time to kill and a time to heal,
    a time to tear down and a time to build,
    a time to weep and a time to laugh,
    a time to mourn and a time to dance,
    a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
    a time to embrace and a time to refrain,
    a time to search and a time to give up,
    a time to keep and a time to throw away,
    a time to tear and a time to mend,
    a time to be silent and a time to speak,
    a time to love and a time to hate,
    a time for war and a time for peace.

  • What is cURL good for?

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  • the ISP doesn’t let you ssh

    Did that occur to you before? Your (new) Internet connection seems to work instantly, but then you recognize, that you do not succeed with ssh connections. (Search engine question: “Why does my SSH connection not work?”) That may have different reasons.

    1. The ISP block connections on certain destination ports like 22.
      If you can, get the sshd you want to connect to, to also answer on port 23 e.g. . You achieve this with an additional line like this in sshd_config there: “Port 23”.
      Usually the “Port 22” has not been explicit there so far, so if you add another Port line, you would also have to make that “Port 22” explicit, otherwise that sshd will not answer on port 22 any longer.
    2. The ISP does not like TOS flags in IP packets, that do not equal 0, or they just don’t like the TOS flag chosen by your openssh.
      The following bullets should actually be “2.1” …, but blogger doesn’t easily support this, and I am just to lazy to enforce it HTML-wise.
    • If you are using Linux and iptables, this may be your quickiest way to achieve this:
      iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -p TCP –dport 22 -j TOS –set-tos 0x0
      It did not work for me though, so I had to find another way.
    • I decided to adapt openssh to my needs, and here is the recipe:
      Get yourself an openssh TAR ball, unpack it, configure it!
      Add this line to config.h : “#define IP_TOS_IS_BROKEN 1” in order to leave the TOS flag untouched!
      Build it, and install it to a safe place, i.e. not necessarily to the standard place, so you will still be able to use the standard installation!
    • A friend of mine built himself a utility to run on the router (a FRITZ!Box 7050 router) and selectively adapt the TOS flag according to his needs.
      Migrating the utility to our FRITZ!Box 7390 models cost us too much time though, so we abandoned that solution.
      If you are still interested in this approach, he might forward his sources to you, so let us know!

  • my 1st hummingbirds on Martinique

    Sitting on the sofa on the balcony / terrace at my customer’s place, thinking about sad IT issues, my eyes got aware of a very nice and lovely “irregularity” in the garden: 2 black+blue hummingbirds. I hope, they will return soon.

  • a very nice pier, but unluckily connected to a construction area and not open to the public

    The location given here is not precisely, where I was standing and what I was referring to. I was standing right by the waterside, which was rather close. And the pier went between 50 and 100 meters into the ocean. I would have loved to sit their with my MacBook hooked to the Internet and writing about my journey and the lovely place.

  • just completed some part of my overseas communication with Europe

    I video-skyped with son#1 and his mother, and for the first time the timezone shift was the other way round: I was in broad daylight, and they at Berlin were already in the “darkness of the night”. Quite funny.

  • Facebook locked me out from Facebook chatting, because they found my IP-address weird

    Once I logged into Facebook on their web-site again, they confronted me with “weird” activities on my account with them, showing me a log-in attempt from Gouadeloupe. For them Gouadeloupe and Martinique seem to have something in common. After I confirmed that as OK, they also let me log into their XMPP style chatting again. That’s quite amusing.

  • returning home the 1st time on Martinique

    Longing for my 2nd shower “inside” and still for the 1st shower “outside” for today. There is a lot of delightful sweetness here.

    Update / 2010-11-19:
    It is so hot and humid on Martinique. My host had told me, there are a couple of showers each day, and I was eagerly waiting for them to come over me.
    What made this one of my most popular posts in 2010?
    Originally through a typo it said “ans still …” instead of “and still …”, which made it rather hard to understand.